Untrusting conspiracy theorists and logical thinkers are not who are typically targeted by mass media advertisers. I think many of us are excluded by design.
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I was under the impression that the GCC project had special wording added to the GPL so that you didn't have to GPL your project simply because it was compiled using GCC libraries and such. Am I correct in this? If this is true, I don't understand what the big deal is about migrating GCC (in particular) to GPL3.
Correct, Ma Bell owns 50% of the ways I can realistically get broadband at my house. If Ma Bell owned these airwaves then they'd own 66% of the ways I can get broadband to my house. The same goes for the cable companies.
I think you're more likely to see cheap wireless broadband than cellular service. That's not to discount the possibility/probability of VOIP over that broadband service. I simply doubt that the Goog would limit their bandwidth to voice.
The beauty of dirt cheap paintable solar cells is that in a few years when the efficiency goes up by 30% you can just paint over the old layer. And yes, you're right it's fairly useless without efficiency metrics.
That doesn't even begin to take into account the vast open land where property owners might be very happy to turn an acre or two of their 50 acre property into a miniature solar power plant so that they can sell it to the 'grid'.
It's entirely possible that the OEM install of Vista that Wal-Mart has installed on the machines has EVERYTHING shut off so that it runs cleanly on 1GB. Assuming they'll have demo machines available for play in the store it's unlikely they'll put it out there if it has embarrassing performance. Either way, for the Wal-Mart computer purchasing market this PC is much better than no PC.
I came here to say essentially the same thing. Most of those 350 distros aim to fill a very niche market. Most of them are not intended to be the next workstation OS. For people in the computing business this is very helpful. For the casual computer user they're not likely to ever come across more than 2-4 flavors. Off the top of my head they'll see Ubuntu, Fedora/Redhat, and Suse... maybe. Not all that confusing.
The real story is how Microsoft changed its patent covenant, after the deal with Linspire was already finalized. Is Microsoft free under that deal to alter the patent covenant however they want - making it useless? IANAL but I do know that you can't make a contract that is contradictory to the law. For example, if I make you sign a waiver before bungee jumping but then replace your regular bungee cord with chain linked pretzels you can still sue me (assuming you survive the fall) because I have illegally created an unsafe environment. If Suse, Linspire or another company breaks the law, Microsoft is within their rights to sue them. A contract stating "I won't sue you for patent infringement" is not necessarily the same as "You are licensed to utilize all of my patents at no charge."
Excuse me, but, how do you reduce a CO2 footprint by removing algae that converts CO2 to O2? Two things.
First, the original quote is about reducing the NET CO2 footprint to zero. When you burn a tree that is carbon neutral because the released CO2 is absorbed by other plants. However, if you dig carbon out of the ground and burn it then that is not carbon neutral because that carbon was not previously part of the natural carbon cycle.
Secondly, the presumption I think is that people would be farming this algae for the most part rather than removing the naturally existing stuff.
"Open XML may be more attractive to those who want richer functionality," which is more than implies that Open XML is better than ODF. Not necessarily. Photoshop has "richer" functionality but I much prefer irfanview for basic viewing and cropping of my images. MS Word has "richer" functionality but I still edit configuration files with Notepad on my Windows boxen. The right tool for the job, with budget considerations =).
It would be an excellent move, too. They wouldn't abandon any of the market, but it would tip the scales in favor of their new benefactor.
Good for VMWare and Intel yes. Good for us? Probably not. I'm not really an AMD fanboy but I don't want the scales tipping too far towards Intel. We need competition in the market.
Just to make up some numbers if the flood of immigrant workers pushes the average wage for developers down from $70k to $50k and Microsoft's (or whatever other tech company) pays a premium of $60k then yes it might keep the bearers of large brains out of the development business or they may alternatively open their own small business, work as contractors, etc. because it allows them to more easily utilize their skillsets for greater profits. If a developer is worth $150k (s)he will make that money if (s)he wants to. However, (s)he won't make that money being a developer for Microsoft. In this particular case I don't want to just pick on microsoft. It goes for any company which wishes to hire the 'best in breed'.
Yeah, for a while the image spam was making it through google's spam filter, but now it appears to be PDF spam. I average 1 per day in my in-box. *mutter*
Where would I find this illustrious 'decently run programming shop' you speak of? I've worked in big business and small business and it seems like support tiers 1 and 2 basically just forward every ticket to me.
Nah, you'd make a feet class and a meters class. The meters.add() method would be over-loaded to accept both another meter object or a feet object. In the meters.add() method you'd do the necessary conversion (if any) and return a meters object with the appropriate value. Your way there's no particular reason that the a+b operation returns feett instead of inches. You chose it arbitrarily and that's confusing to the developer using your library/code. Overloading operators is an extremely obtuse way of handling this issue in an object oriented language.
If I were you I'd try Knoppix or any of the other 'livecd' distributions before re-partitioning my hard drive. With a live cd you run the operating system from the CD without having to install anything. Good luck!
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Untrusting conspiracy theorists and logical thinkers are not who are typically targeted by mass media advertisers. I think many of us are excluded by design.
Cheers
I was under the impression that the GCC project had special wording added to the GPL so that you didn't have to GPL your project simply because it was compiled using GCC libraries and such. Am I correct in this? If this is true, I don't understand what the big deal is about migrating GCC (in particular) to GPL3.
Anyone?
According to wikipedia, Wikipedia is never wrong, so it must be true!
Correct, Ma Bell owns 50% of the ways I can realistically get broadband at my house. If Ma Bell owned these airwaves then they'd own 66% of the ways I can get broadband to my house. The same goes for the cable companies.
I think you're more likely to see cheap wireless broadband than cellular service. That's not to discount the possibility/probability of VOIP over that broadband service. I simply doubt that the Goog would limit their bandwidth to voice.
I'm surprised that no one mentioned the obvious benefit of "More difficult to walk away with."
The beauty of dirt cheap paintable solar cells is that in a few years when the efficiency goes up by 30% you can just paint over the old layer. And yes, you're right it's fairly useless without efficiency metrics.
Given that each of his communications cost $0.41 I'm assuming he's a snail mailer.
That doesn't even begin to take into account the vast open land where property owners might be very happy to turn an acre or two of their 50 acre property into a miniature solar power plant so that they can sell it to the 'grid'.
It's entirely possible that the OEM install of Vista that Wal-Mart has installed on the machines has EVERYTHING shut off so that it runs cleanly on 1GB. Assuming they'll have demo machines available for play in the store it's unlikely they'll put it out there if it has embarrassing performance. Either way, for the Wal-Mart computer purchasing market this PC is much better than no PC.
I came here to say essentially the same thing. Most of those 350 distros aim to fill a very niche market. Most of them are not intended to be the next workstation OS. For people in the computing business this is very helpful. For the casual computer user they're not likely to ever come across more than 2-4 flavors. Off the top of my head they'll see Ubuntu, Fedora/Redhat, and Suse... maybe. Not all that confusing.
First, the original quote is about reducing the NET CO2 footprint to zero. When you burn a tree that is carbon neutral because the released CO2 is absorbed by other plants. However, if you dig carbon out of the ground and burn it then that is not carbon neutral because that carbon was not previously part of the natural carbon cycle.
Secondly, the presumption I think is that people would be farming this algae for the most part rather than removing the naturally existing stuff.
Well, obviously the Airport access points will give the iPhones MAC addresses as the summary suggests... unlike most brands of access points. =)
It would be an excellent move, too. They wouldn't abandon any of the market, but it would tip the scales in favor of their new benefactor.
Good for VMWare and Intel yes. Good for us? Probably not. I'm not really an AMD fanboy but I don't want the scales tipping too far towards Intel. We need competition in the market.Its description does sort of remind me of a virus scanner.
Just to make up some numbers if the flood of immigrant workers pushes the average wage for developers down from $70k to $50k and Microsoft's (or whatever other tech company) pays a premium of $60k then yes it might keep the bearers of large brains out of the development business or they may alternatively open their own small business, work as contractors, etc. because it allows them to more easily utilize their skillsets for greater profits. If a developer is worth $150k (s)he will make that money if (s)he wants to. However, (s)he won't make that money being a developer for Microsoft. In this particular case I don't want to just pick on microsoft. It goes for any company which wishes to hire the 'best in breed'.
It sounds to me like Novell was smarter than everyone gave them credit for in this deal.
Yeah, for a while the image spam was making it through google's spam filter, but now it appears to be PDF spam. I average 1 per day in my in-box. *mutter*
You should never have to uninstall anything. Format and upgrade.
Where would I find this illustrious 'decently run programming shop' you speak of? I've worked in big business and small business and it seems like support tiers 1 and 2 basically just forward every ticket to me.
I sir, pledge to you several mod points as soon as I get them in the next round.
Nah, you'd make a feet class and a meters class. The meters.add() method would be over-loaded to accept both another meter object or a feet object. In the meters.add() method you'd do the necessary conversion (if any) and return a meters object with the appropriate value. Your way there's no particular reason that the a+b operation returns feett instead of inches. You chose it arbitrarily and that's confusing to the developer using your library/code. Overloading operators is an extremely obtuse way of handling this issue in an object oriented language.
If I were you I'd try Knoppix or any of the other 'livecd' distributions before re-partitioning my hard drive. With a live cd you run the operating system from the CD without having to install anything. Good luck!